 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
propinquity
noun: the property of being close together [syn: {proximity}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Propinquity \Pro*pin"qui*ty\, noun [L. propinquitas, from
propinquus near, neighboring, from prope near.]
1. Nearness in place; neighborhood; proximity.
2. Nearness in time. --Sir T. Browne.
3. Nearness of blood; kindred; affinity. --Shak.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "propinquity":
accord, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity,
agnation, alliance, ancestry, approach, approximation, assemblage,
association, blood, blood relationship, bond, brotherhood,
brothership, closeness, cognation, combination, common ancestry,
common descent, confines, connectedness, connection, consanguinity,
contiguity, contiguousness, contrariety, convergence, cousinhood,
cousinship, dealings, deduction, disjunction, enation, environs,
fatherhood, filiation, foreground, fraternity, homology, immediacy,
immediate foreground, intercourse, intimacy, junction, kindred,
kinship, liaison, link, linkage, linking, maternity, matrilineage,
matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, mutual attraction,
nearness, neighborhood, nighness, paternity, patrilineage,
patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, precinct, proximity, purlieus,
rapport, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, sibship,
similarity, sisterhood, sistership, sympathy, tie, tie-in,
ties of blood, union, vicinage, vicinity
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